TEAS Nursing Entrance Exam Test
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• germinate . Answer: sprout, seed, bud
• congeal . Answer: solidify, coagulate, harden
• rudimentary . Answer: basic, opposite of advanced
• dandy . Answer: someone who is elegant in dress or has manners
• whimsical . Answer: playful, opposite of grim or grave
• penitent . Answer: person who tends to regret
• querulous . Answer: habitually whining person, tends to complain or
argue over minor details
• virtuouso . Answer: having great skill, opposite of incompetent
• mutable . Answer: prone to change (think of a mutation or an abnormal
change)
,• antediluvial . Answer: before a flood
• diluvial . Answer: having to do with a flood
• legislate . Answer: mandate throught the creation of laws
• prattle . Answer: talk aimlessly or idly
• erroneous . Answer: mistake (err-think error)
• ominous . Answer: predicts or foreshadows disaster
• unguent . Answer: ointment used to soothe or heal, opposite of irritant
• orator . Answer: public speaker who needs to be able to articulate
• exculpate . Answer: clear from blame
• ravenous . Answer: extremely hungry
• supplicant . Answer: humble begger has humility
,• maven . Answer: expert, has expertise
• insidious . Answer: something that spreads harmfully in a subtle or
stealthy manner
• cede . Answer: yield, give up, transfer title to someone else
• eschew . Answer: forbid, shun, abatain from, avoid it
• proscribe . Answer: forbid or prohibit as harmful
• percent increase formula . Answer: (change/original number) x 100%
• circumfrence of a circle formula . Answer: 2 x pie x radius OR
diameter x pie
• commensal relationship . Answer: form of a symbiotic relationship,
two organisms live in close association with each other. One benefits
while the other is neither harms or benefites. +/0 relationship
• polysome . Answer: cluster of ribosomes
• notochord . Answer: a semi-rigid rod in the dorsal part of all chordates,
this remains as a semi-rigid chord, although in highrt chordates it is seen
only in the embryo and as a vestigial organ.
, -a flexible material made out of similar material to cartilage. If a species
has notochord it is by definition it is a chordate. Ex: fish, birds,
mammals
• enzymes . Answer: proteins, typically work best at pH7.2
• electron transport chain . Answer: directly produces the pH gradient by
pumping protons out of the mitochondrial matrix. the proton gradient is
used to make ATP.
• closed circuit . Answer: has continuity and allows current to flow in it
• as you go from left to right across a period, what happens to electrons .
Answer: electrons are added one at a time, the electrons of the outermost
shell experience an increasing amount of nuclear attraction becoming
closer and more tightly bound to the nucleus.
• voltage drop . Answer: happens as current passes through a resistance,
represents an energy loss, this energy is usually dissipated in the form of
heat.
• what temperature does water at sea level boil . Answer: 212F, 100C,
373K
• logy . Answer: lethargic, lacking in energy or vitality, mental and
physical slowness
Bank | Updated Questions and
Answers Review
• germinate . Answer: sprout, seed, bud
• congeal . Answer: solidify, coagulate, harden
• rudimentary . Answer: basic, opposite of advanced
• dandy . Answer: someone who is elegant in dress or has manners
• whimsical . Answer: playful, opposite of grim or grave
• penitent . Answer: person who tends to regret
• querulous . Answer: habitually whining person, tends to complain or
argue over minor details
• virtuouso . Answer: having great skill, opposite of incompetent
• mutable . Answer: prone to change (think of a mutation or an abnormal
change)
,• antediluvial . Answer: before a flood
• diluvial . Answer: having to do with a flood
• legislate . Answer: mandate throught the creation of laws
• prattle . Answer: talk aimlessly or idly
• erroneous . Answer: mistake (err-think error)
• ominous . Answer: predicts or foreshadows disaster
• unguent . Answer: ointment used to soothe or heal, opposite of irritant
• orator . Answer: public speaker who needs to be able to articulate
• exculpate . Answer: clear from blame
• ravenous . Answer: extremely hungry
• supplicant . Answer: humble begger has humility
,• maven . Answer: expert, has expertise
• insidious . Answer: something that spreads harmfully in a subtle or
stealthy manner
• cede . Answer: yield, give up, transfer title to someone else
• eschew . Answer: forbid, shun, abatain from, avoid it
• proscribe . Answer: forbid or prohibit as harmful
• percent increase formula . Answer: (change/original number) x 100%
• circumfrence of a circle formula . Answer: 2 x pie x radius OR
diameter x pie
• commensal relationship . Answer: form of a symbiotic relationship,
two organisms live in close association with each other. One benefits
while the other is neither harms or benefites. +/0 relationship
• polysome . Answer: cluster of ribosomes
• notochord . Answer: a semi-rigid rod in the dorsal part of all chordates,
this remains as a semi-rigid chord, although in highrt chordates it is seen
only in the embryo and as a vestigial organ.
, -a flexible material made out of similar material to cartilage. If a species
has notochord it is by definition it is a chordate. Ex: fish, birds,
mammals
• enzymes . Answer: proteins, typically work best at pH7.2
• electron transport chain . Answer: directly produces the pH gradient by
pumping protons out of the mitochondrial matrix. the proton gradient is
used to make ATP.
• closed circuit . Answer: has continuity and allows current to flow in it
• as you go from left to right across a period, what happens to electrons .
Answer: electrons are added one at a time, the electrons of the outermost
shell experience an increasing amount of nuclear attraction becoming
closer and more tightly bound to the nucleus.
• voltage drop . Answer: happens as current passes through a resistance,
represents an energy loss, this energy is usually dissipated in the form of
heat.
• what temperature does water at sea level boil . Answer: 212F, 100C,
373K
• logy . Answer: lethargic, lacking in energy or vitality, mental and
physical slowness
